Digitally recorded educational experiences
Veiwing the Podcast – Geo literacy Skills- it demonstrates the different ways you can document an educational experience by which students can access and can be used in further educational lessons. The ability for students to continuously visulise their learning is an important aspect for children to develop cognitively. The ability for children to reflect on their learning not only from their memory is a great way for children to enhance their knowledge and skills. This video- digitial story is a great way for a teacher to assess children on particular learning experiences as the teacher is presented with the new views and ideas created by the learning experience. The need for teachers to introduce the use of technology- especially digital stories is vital in the need for students to think beyond the one experiences which will inevitably enhance the knowledge and skills of a child- the true meaning to education!!!
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The article Fingerprint roll call plan for schools discusses the use of technological roll calling by using the finger prints of students to take the roll of the entire school. This finger scan system allows the school and teachers to monitor the movement of students. Although this idea saves time which provides opportunities for further education, it has been suggested that it is intrusive and makes students feel like they are in prison. Providing teachers with ability to be notified where their students are is an important issue and allows teachers to devote their entire attention to the class they are teaching rather than wasting time on small things such as taking the roll. This finger scan will also provide motivation for students to attend school and will become the norm for the entire school. Although an expensive root this should be eventually adopted in schools across urban Australia.
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I recently read the article ‘Kansas launches tuition-free online public high school’ posted on The Journal. I decided to make a post on this article as i believe it is important and would be great in Australia. Although this article is based on High school i believe that primary students should also be provided with the opportunity to learn and study through the internet. This article discusses the ability for disabled, home-schooled and students who lives in rural areas an opportunity to learn at an equal level to those students who attend the schools. The great choice of providing this opportunity for free would allow students who have financial difficulties to learn in an ample amount of time. The article also states that schools will provide laptops and riemberce the cost of the internet which is so intriguing and positive. This gives ALL students the opportunity to learn and enhance their education. This idea would be great in Australia. Students who have language difficulties would be able to learn off their computers and not fall behind, students are able to educational learn through technology and would give students who are unable to attend schools the ability to learn throughout the entire year. Limitations in this concept is that teachers already have a lack of time to teach students and are constantly using their own time, thus in using the online tutorials the teachers would have to use a lot of their own personal time. Another limitation is that students may not follow learning outcomes and indicators and become distracted. However overall i believe that providing students who are disadvantaged the ability to learn at home, using technology, is defiantly a great concept.
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